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CAUDATE, having a process like a tail. 



CAUDEX, applied to the stems of palms and tree-ferns. 



CAULICULE, a small stem in the embryo uniting the cotyledons 



with the radicle. 



CAULIS, caulescent; plants with a stem. 

 CELL, CELLULE, UTRICLE, a minute closed sac or bag usually 



filled with fluid, a cavity. 

 CELLULAR TISSUE, composed of simple cells united into a web, or 



in a compact body as in pith. 

 CELLULOSE, the outer membrane of a cell, the basis of vegetable 



tissues, 



CERNUOCJS, nodding, inclined by its own weight, drooping. 

 CHAFFY, membranous, with chaff-like processes. 

 CHALAZA, the base of the ovule; the point where the nutriment 



enters the ovule from the vascular cords derived from the 



placenta. 



CHANNELLED, having a small continuous hollow. 

 CHLOROPHYLL, the colouring matter in the cells of green leaves. 

 CICATRIX, a scar left as by a fallen leaf. 

 CIKLE, hairs like the eyelash. 

 CILIATE, edged with hairs. 

 CIRCINATE, rolled up in the form of a crozier. 

 CIRRHOSE, having tendrils as in the pea. 

 CLAVATE, club-shaped, thickened upwards. 

 CLAW, the narrow end or base of a petal. 

 CLEFT, cut into near the middle. 

 COCHLEATE, shaped like a spoon. 

 COHERING, similar bodies uniting, as in a monopetalous corolla by 



the margin. 

 COLEORHIZA, a sheath which invests the base of the first roots, 



from such seeds as the grasses. 

 COLUMELLA, the central column of a seed vessel, when the placen- 



tation is free central. 



COLUMN, where the stamens and style unite in Orchids. 

 COMMISSURE, the inner face of the carpels in Umbelliferce. 

 COMOSE, furnished with a tuft of hairs. 



COMPLETE, a flower having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil. 

 COMPOUND, formed of similar parts often repeated, or leaves 



divided into several secondary ones called leaflets. 

 COMPRESSED, flattened by lateral pressure. 

 CONDUPLICATE, folded upon each other as in the young leaves of 



the Cherry. 



CONE, a dry fruit, covered with scales as in the fir-trees. 

 CONJUGATE, arranged in pairs. 

 CONNATE, when two leaves are united at the base, with the stem 



in the middle. 



CONNECTIVE, the part connecting the anther lobes. 

 CONSTRICTED, contracted at some particular place. 

 CONTORTED, twisted, as seen in the corollas of several natural orders. 



